The DIGHIST project is a response to the challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the field of historical and civic education.Today, young people face challenges which consist of not only of lack of contact with their peers, taking part in classes not adapted to the requirements of distance education, but also of the need to understand the difficult social processes they are witnessess of. The role of history and social sciences teachers is now more important tham ever - as it is them, who help young people to understand the world.The experience of all European countries shows the need for a radical change in the approach to teaching humanities. The pandemic only highlighted the challenges facing the system for a long time: transfer of knowledge in the form of lectures, the tradictional classes with no time for reflection, analysis and drawing conclusions and developing the ability to understand historical and social processes.Therefore, the result of the 24-month cooperation of partners will be the creation, testing and dissemination of an innovative data storytelling approach in the area of teaching about the 20th century European history. We will create innovative tools and content supporting independent reflection and understanding of social processes and, consequently, help to transform history and civic education.The project will also help equip teachers of history and social sciences with the knowledge and competences necessary to conduct engaging and valuable remote and hybrid lessons on socially important topics in an asynchronous model, based on 20th century European history.The key part of the project is to strengthen the professional competences of history teachers and their self-esteem and agency. We want teachers to become guides for their students around today's world and that respect for history teachers should be built on a good relationship with students and the use of modern digital tools and teaching aids which make use of communication generic for Generation Z (born 1997-2010)The DIGHIST project will be run by three organizations experienced in the following topics: creative presentation of complex historical and social processes, introducing innovative ICT tools to education, conducting asynchronous learning (including flipped lesson), supporting remote education, using visual tools in education and the use of data storytelling and design thinking (focusing on tailoring solutions to the needs of recipients): Fundacja Szkoła z Klasą (Poland), Asociación Smilemundo (Spain) and King Baudouin Foundation (Belgium). The profiles and experience of the organization complement each other perfectly: they are three NGOs - one experienced in teachers professional development and working with new technologies, the other in producing high-quality online support, and the third being a cultural institution dealing with innovative methods of education about contemporary European history.Within the project, we will prepare:- a map of important, contemporary historical issues, which are presented in an incomplete, cursory way in various countries.- A DIGHIS toolkit - containing methodological guidelines for the data storytelling method, methods supporting asynchronous work and specific digital tools to be used in the lesson, along with high-quality visual teaching aids prepared in the data storytelling methodology (so that teachers of various educational stages can use it).- The toolbox will be tested during a pilot, on the basis of which we will prepare methodologies for training teachers.- The project will be extended by a virtual atlas collecting areas and topics of contemporary 20th-century European history that are worth discussing with students. Everthing will also be converted into an online course, allowing in the future to create your own materials using the methodology developed in the project.Educational experts, historians, specialists in remote education, data storytelling specialists and teachers-practitioners cooperating with the project partners will work on the materials.The project is addressed primarily to teachers of history and social sciences, and to those teachers with whom historians can carry out joint, interdisciplinary projects (e.g. language, arts or geography teachers).In the pilot program we will involve min. 20 schools from three partner countries, including at least 6 from Poland). The project will involve at least 60 teachers - 30 historians, 30 teachers of other subjects and about 500 students. Moreover, we plan to train 300 teachers (from Poland, Spain and Belgium) in the developed methodology.An additional target group are also European organizations disseminating educational innovations, policy makers and school heads, educational media. To disseminate the project, social networks will be widely used, which are the basic communication tool for students and teachers.